Halil İbrahim İzgi: Digital Diaspora / Dijital Diaspora

Digital Diaspora / Dijital Diaspora PANDORA’NIN KUTUSU MU?   Yeni medya çağı bildiğimiz birçok değerin yerine yenilerini yerleştirmeye devam ediyor. Birkaç yıl önce dijital diplomasiden söz ederken şimdi ortaya yepyeni bir kavram çıktı: Dijital Diaspora… Bu kavramdan ana vatanları dışında kalan kişilerin oluşturdukları dijital topluluklarla ait oldukları kültürler için yurttaş demokrasisi faaliyetlerini sürdürmelerini anlıyoruz. Değerli … Read more

a Journalism roundup: The wave of non-profit locally-focused news organizations and more…

  Diaspora and future social networks: decentralized, open-sourced? from Editors Weblog – all postings by Jean Yves Chainon It has been about a year now since Diaspora and its four founders made ripples through the blogosphere and mainstream media, including in this New York Times article, following the $200,000 plus donations that the budding alternative … Read more

Middlesex Philosophy needs support

Academic Boycott of Middlesex

from Larval Subjects

This post will remain at the top of Larval Subjects until something changes with the Middlesex Situation.

In solidarity with our brothers and sisters at Middlesex and to preserve the integrity of academia, I strongly encourage readers of Larval Subjects to sign this petition boycotting Middlesex until the Philosophy department is restored and those students and members of the faculty who have been wrongly suspended have their positions restored. This is not just an issue pertaining to the Middlesex Philosophy department, but goes straight to the core of academia. We must not let these sorts of practices become acceptable.

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